The Polish Climate in the European Context: An Historical Overview

The Polish Climate in the European Context: An Historical OverviewReconstruction of the climate variability of the past 500 years is a topic of great scientific interest not only in global terms, but also at regional and local levels. This period is interesting on account of the increasing influence of anthropogenic forcing and its overlap with natural factors. The Polish Climate in the European Context: An Historical Overview summarises the results of research into climate variability based on a combination of instrumental, documentary, dendrochronological and borehole data from Poland.

The first part of the book provides a Central European perspective of research in these fields, which forms the general background for a presentation of the state of the art of climatic change studies in Poland during the past 500 years (Part 2). This is followed by a selection of papers dealing mainly with different aspects of climate variability in Poland and Central Europe (Part 3).

"This book is a valuable tool integrating Polish, Central and Eastern European climate research into the global context. It is, as such, a must for climate researchers worldwide." (Gaston Demarée, Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium)

"This volume marks a significant step forward in our understanding of European climatic history." (Christian Pfister, University of Bern)

Climate of Poland and Central/Eastern Europe during the past millennium combining instrumental, documentary and other proxy dataLong-term instrumental meteorological series from PolandLong-term proxy-based paleoclimatic reconstructions for the past 500 yearsComparative studies of the paleo-reconstructions from data, proxy data and GCMSynthesis of long-term subsurface temperature change based on borehole temperatures